Show radio messages first sent during civil war while marconi generally Is credited with being the inventor of wireless telegraphy the first radio messages were sent during the civil war says saya C francis jenkins veteran inventor although prof joseph henry in 1832 12 discovered that electrical oscillations could be detected a considerable distance from the oscillator it remained lor for a washington dentist dr mahlan loomis actually to send the first radio messages nes sages mr jenkins said in ID 1805 1665 he built an oscillating circuit and connected it to a wire aerial supported by a kite one station was waa set up or on bear den mountain va not very far from roin washington and a duplicate station was waa get et up on top of catoctin spur 15 miles mile distant Ales sages were sent alternately from one st station a t ion t to t the h e other by dot arid and dash interruption ot of a buzzer spark circuit reception deception was wag attained hy by deflecting a galvanometer needle at the rec elvinp point in 1869 a bill was introduced in congress to incorporate the loomis aerial telegraph company nobody would buy the stock and it remained for or others years later to reap the reward of radio radio broadcasting mr jenkins says saya |